We'll see, BC has an incredible group of options.
Holmes is not a bad backup center, so they may decide to move Noel if the price is right.
One factor is whether Saric comes over this year or next (his decision may truly be "my money or my life," Turkey has to be a hairy place for a Croatian Christian to play these days). The decision comes in July.
If Embiid/Jah/Holmes play 48 minutes at center
Simmons/Jah play 42 minutes at PF (Jah plays 12, Simmons 30), Covington/Grant play 6 minutes
Covington/Grant/Thompson play 48 minutes at SF
Bayless, Rodiquez, Henderson, TJ play 96 minutes at G
11 players exhaust all the minutes with only Simmons and Jah playing more than 30 minutes a night.
And if you add Saric, it's even more crowded.
And of course they still have Landry, Stauskas, Marshall, TLC, Wood filling out the roster.
So I think a trade of Noel/Jah is still very likely, but BC can take his time, because of the logjam on the roster, such a trade will probably be paired with another trade where they throw in a cheap bench piece.
There's a tendency to think all the holdover Sixer players have no value, but Ish got 3yr/$18M as a free agent, A Moute was actually starting for someone last year, and so on.
Hollis Thompson or Stauskas might be attractive to a team that wants a low cost shooting option at the end of the bench.
Covington, Grant, and Holmes have real value as low cost bench players, Covington could probably start for a dozen teams.
So I could see two deals, one moving a big man, one targeting a SF, with the Sixers moving some low cost reserves, maybe eating a big contract to help a team clear space for next year, and adding more draft picks. Maybe a three way deal which are popular in the NBA.
